Missile launch leaves brilliant trail in the sky The contrail from a missile launch near Gallup, NM, lit up the southeastern sky Thursday morning. Dan O'Boyle with the Missile Defence Agency at the White Sands range said the contrail was left from a test interceptor missile launch near Fort Wingate...
Orbital elements:
2012 QC8 Earth MOID = 0.0572 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 354.12579 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.21174227 Peri. 45.31995 +0.34928680 -0.93604228
a 2.7878175 Node 24.33280 +0.82771917 +0.28686369
e 0.7660116 Incl. 5.94882 +0.43918072 +0.20379910
P 4.65 H 17.9 G 0...
Astrium's SPOT 6 ready for launch campaign SPOT 6, the brand new Earth observation satellite built by Astrium, Europe's leading space technology company, is now ready for launch. It will be transferred in the coming days from the Astrium Satellites facility in Toulouse (France) to the Satish Dhaw...
Virtual Sky 0.3.8 I wanted to share a quick update on Virtual Sky. I created it as part of my work at LCOGT where it was, initially, an experiment in using some of the latest web techniques (HTML5 canvas). However it became clear that, as well as being useful for parts of the LCOGT website, it could allow o...
Scottish wildcat extinct within months Scottish wildcats will be extinct in the wild within months as numbers of pure-bred cats have fallen to about 35 individuals, conservationists warn. A team put together by the Scottish Wildcat Association (SWA) reviewed 2,000 records of camera trap sighti...
From the Moon to Aberdeen Pupils had a rare chance to view exciting samples of moon rocks and a collection of impressive meteorites at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, when they arrived for a week's visit. Pupils were able to enjoy a unique, interactive experience of astronomy during their lesso...
Title: V369 Gem: A New Ellipsoidal Variable System With High Level Chromospheric Activity Authors: H. A. Dal, E. Sipahi, O. Özdarcan In this study, we present BVR photometry of V369 Gem in 2006 - 2008. We combined our V data with the data taken from the literature. We analysed all the data together and...
Professor Sid Watkins, who was at the forefront of Formula 1 safety for more than 30 years, has died aged 84. The neurosurgeon, who was a close friend of the late three-time champion Ayrton Senna, served as the sport's medical delegate from 1978 until 2004. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/mot...
Title: Brightness variations in totally-eclipsing binary GSC4589-2999 Authors: E. Sipahi, H. A. Dal, O. Özdarcan We present multi-colour CCD photometry of GSC4589-2999 obtained in 2008 and 2009. The observations indicate that the system is an active Algol binary. Based on the new data, the mea...
Title: A New Twist In the Evolution of Low-Mass Stars Authors: Pavel A. Denissenkov (University of Victoria) We show that the evolutionary track of a low-mass red giant should make an extended zigzag on the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram just after the bump luminosity, if fast internal rotation and e...
V458Vulpeculae = Nova Vulpeculae 2007 Discovered by Matsue's Hiroshi Abe, (Hiroshi Abe, Matsue), on August 8 at 22 pm JST, 2007. Position(2000): RA = 19 h 54 m 24 s .64, Dec = +20 o 52 '51 ".9 Mag 9.4 CBET 1038 Read more
Title: Is there a compact companion orbiting the late O-type binary star HD 164816? Authors: L. Trepl, V. V. Hambaryan, T. Pribulla, N. Tetzlaff, R. Chini, R. Neuhäuser, S. B. Popov, O. Stahl, F. M. Walter, M. M. Hohle We present a multi-wavelength (X-ray, gamma-ray, optical and radio) study of HD 19...
Dimitri Nanopoulos (born 13 September 1948 in Athens) is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 35,800 times over across a number of separate branches of science. Read more
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